Goodnight Mom

This is part two of Introducing Nico to the World, read part one here ! I will warn you up here that I will talk about the surgery. So feel free to skip this post, or just fast forward to the delivery section if you get creeped out!  Leaving the hospital together Surgery I was most nervous about the process of being anesthetized for the operation. For cesarean sections, you receive a “spinal”: an anesthetic is injected into the fluid surrounding the nerve that runs along your spine. This is different from an epidural that many women receive during labor. The spinal injection is deeper, closer to the nerve and works almost instantly for a finite amount of time (1-2 hours). Epidurals take 10-15 minutes to kick in, and are often set up with a catheter so that that medication can continue to be infused (like having a top up!). In the UK the spinal procedure had taken a long time and at one point I felt a pain run down my back and into my left butt. I alerted them to this, and they had to r